Yes much better combo, the i5 will help a lot with more cpu intensive titles.

However i'd keep the hard drive and drop the ssd. Trust me, that 120 gb will fill up insanely fast. The OS alone will take up over 20 gb, and games now adays are huge. Titanfall was like 50 gb installed.

As long as the hard drive is 7200 rpm, it will still be pretty fast especially with windows 8.1.

Yes, an i5 would be better. But paired with that 270 your really not going to reap its full potential.

280x is much more powerful, and you'll achieve much more performance in a lot of games. Yes maybe a bottleneck in a few CPU intensive games, but I haven't seen any benchmarks where the i3 completely shit the bed.

Mobo/Ram are plain but fine. You have room to put another 1x8 gb, for 16 gb total in the future. Didn't sound like you'd be overclocking either so this is fine. Also USB 3.0 headers.

Yeah I know 600 watts is overkill for an i3/280x but the 500 watt variant was like one euro cheaper. So fuck it, its fine and plenty of room for upgrading

I got your SSD in there too. I really don't think you'll need that blu ray player. Wasn't clear if you needed an OS or not, but there's €100 of headroom there for whatever

The only other suggestion I have is to wait a month or two. AMD releases their new series of GPUs sometime in March/April (R9 300 series) and the leaked benchmarks are pretty nuts. The R9 280x will still be just as fine, but damn if a whole new line of gpus isn't exciting.

Haswell i3 is the go to budget cpu. It's fantastic for it's price performance, and handles 60 fps just fine. For your purposes I think it's ideal. The next logical upgrade is an i5, but for gaming it's always important to budget the GPU first

An R9 280x at 1080p 60fps and you won't have to worry about upgrading for the foreseeable future.

There's plenty of wiggle room too, you can drop down to an R9 280 or GTX 960 if you want to save some cash, those are both pretty solid mid range GPU's.

Performance wise, the i3 and 280x would be your best choice oddly enough.

Even though the i3 is locked, it trumps the 8320 in gaming even when the 8320 is overclocked (you'll probably need an aftermarket cooler too $20-30). The Intel mobo also allows for an i5 or i7 upgrade, while the amd build pretty much ends there with an overclocked fx 83xx.

500 watt seasonic along with a stock r9 280, I think its the board/my luck. The 6300 is still pretty adequate though. I have high hopes for dx12 with my 6 cores, but I feel a lot of newer builders might just be better off sticking an i3 in.